David Bridgett, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Psychology

EDUCATION

Ph.D.: Washington State University, 2008

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Consistent with my interests and program of investigation, research within the Emotion Regulation & Temperament Laboratory at NIU focuses on identifying contributors to infant/toddler emotion regulation, such as aspects of parent emotion regulation and parenting, how parent emotion regulation affects parenting of young children, and how early individual differences in emotion regulation contribute to risk for early emerging symptoms of internalizing and externalizing problems. Furthermore, the research within the lab takes a longitudinal approach so that we are able to model how early emotion regulation changes over time as a result of parent, child, and other environmental factors.

Bridgett, D. J., & Mayes, L. C. (2011). Development of Inhibitory Control Among Prenatally Cocaine Exposed and Non-Cocaine Exposed Youths from Late Childhood to Early Adolescence: The Effects of Gender and Risk and Subsequent Aggressive Behavior. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 33, 47-60.